Match package



' NOV. 14, 1933. J c PEURRUNG 1,935,276

MATCH PACKAGE Filed May 1, 1933 ATTORNEY.

Patented Nov. 14, 193 3 when srAT s "ArENT oFFicE I MATCH PACK GE Joseph C. Peurru'ng, Wyoming, Ohio Application May 1, 1933'. Serial Naceasss 3 Claims. (01. 206*29) My inventionrela'tes to match packages in which the tips of the matches ignite by frictional contact.

The regulations of the Interstate Commerce 5 Commission, in accordance with the act of March 4, 1921, provideforxthe transportation of explosives, that all individual containers contain ing three hundred and fifty or more matches must have placed over the matches a center holding or protecting strip made of cardboard which can be bent without fracture.v The strip must be not less than 1 inches wide and flanged down at least of an inchon each end to hold the matches in position when the container is nested into the shuck or cover or withdrawn therefrom. The regulations further provide that 1 when more than three hundred matches are packaged in any individual container the matches must be arranged in two nearly equal portions with the heads of the two portions placed in opposite direction.

In the packaging of matches, these regulations permit the tips or heads of the top portion of matches to engage the under surface of the cover of the package, and as the matches are often packaged with the match composition still moist, it'frequently happensthat the composition adheres to the under. surface of the sliding cover.

If the sliding cover' has the composition of some of the heads adhered thereto when the container part of the box is pushed out from the enclosing cover, the entire box of matches may be ignited which frequently results in dangerous burns.

For many years match manufacturers have been subject to claims for damages because of the fact that the matches ignite when the box is first opened.

It is the object of my invention toprovide a match package in which the heads of the top row of matches are held in spaced position from the inside of the cover, so that regardless of the manner in which the boxes are packed together, and whether the heads are moist when the matches are packed, there will be no opportunity for adhesion to the cover.

Specifically it is the object of my invention to comply with the Interstate Commerce Commissions regulations, and at the same time to provide a protecting strip having sufficient thickness to press down on the-matches so that the heads of the matches will be held inspaced position from the cover.

It is a further specific object of my invention to provide a holding or protecting strip made from light corrugated paper, the corrugations of which will be approximately f% of an inch in depth. 7

I It is further an object of my inventionto provide a protecting strip having the top surface formed of an inexpensive white book'or bond paper which may be printed prior to the application of the cover to the corrugated paper.

13y means of my novel protecting strip it is a further object of my invention to provide a package which will be safer to ship and to store, as well as to be safe when the individual boxes are opened.

The above objects and other objects to which reference will be made in the ensuing disclosure .I accomplish by that certaincombination and arrangement of parts of which I have shown a preferred embodiment.

In the drawing:

Figure 1 is a perspective view of an open box showing my preferred type "of cover in position.

Figure 2 is a sectional view taken along the lines 22 in Figure 1.

Figure 3 is a perspective View of my preferred type of corrugated cover protecting strip.

Figure 4 is a perspective view of a modification of my type of corrugated cover protecting strip.

Referring to the drawing, the match package illustrated is of conventional type having an open top container of rectangular shape with an enclosing cover member 2 which is open at its ends and isadaptedto slide into position enclosing the sides, top and bottom of the container.

The matches, in accordance with the regulations, are packed with a lower portion 3 with the 9 3 web 6, which may be printed, adhesively secured 95,

to-the corrugated portion. The thickness of the protecting strip should be approximately inch or more, so that when the strip isplaced on top of the matches, the ends 7 of the strip will extend down at the ends, and a spacing, as indicated'at 8, will be provided between the headsof the upper layer of matches and the under surface of the top of the cover 2.

Thus, when the container is slid out from the cover, there will be no frictional contact between the heads of the upper layer of matches and the cover. The spacing further prevents any tendency for matches with moist heads to adhere to the under surface of the cover.

In the modification illustrated in Figure 4, the 11.0

corrugated web 5 is only placed on the portion of the strip which lies directly above the matches, while the turned down ends 9 are of plain cardboard. These ends 9 may be formed from an extension of the web 6, or they may be formed from separate pieces of cardboard pasted or fastened to the web 6 in any manner. In placing the matches in the box at the factory in mass work, it sometimes slows up the whole procedure when it is necessary to place the corrugated ends 7 between the matches and the ends of the box. The ends are apt to catch on the matches, and for this reason my modification, as illustratedin Figure 4, has plain ends which will slip in between the matches and the ends of the box easily.

Match boxes or packages are usually packed tightly together so that even though a plain strip of paper, as provided by the regulations, is used, when the walls of a number of boxes are pressed together the side walls tend to bulge inwardly, allowing the top wall of the cover to be bulged downwardly.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to securerby Letters Patent, is:-

1. A match package containing 300 or more matches, with means for spacing the heads of the top layer of matches from contact with the cover, said means comprising a corrugated strip of substantially one-sixteenth of an inch in thickness and the length of the match package, a covering for said strip, and end pieces of plain cardboard fastened to each end of the corrugated strip by means of said covering.

2. A match package comprising a drawer, a sliding cover for said drawer, and matches in said drawer, a packing strip placed over the top layer of matches in said drawer and having the two ends bent down between the matches and the ends of said drawer, the portion of saidstrip which lies over the matches being corrugated longitudinally.

JOSEPH e. PEURRUNG.

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